Spoiler: This story is a continuation of Viva Las Vegas. Rating: PG-13 Disclaimer I have nothing to do with The Agency and receive no compensation
Since Stiles and Terri are now secretly married. I've changed some of the scenes to have it play out a little different. This next part involves a little bit of Debbie Does Djakarta. I'm not going to do the whole thing. Just Terri's anniversary and the book.
Chapter 4
Terri woke up, she looked around for Stiles he was already gone. Sitting on his pillow was a single red rose with a note. She smelled the rose and smiled, she opened the note. "Terri, I just didn't have the heart to wake you up. You looked so beautiful sleeping there." even though no one was around, she blushed. "I had to go in early to talk to Quinn. I'll see you at the meeting. I love you. Stiles." Terri got up and couldn't stop smiling. She went in to take her shower.
The phone started ringing as she was getting ready. She picked it up. "Hello."
"Happy Anniversary sweetheart."
"Jeff? What the hell do you want?"
"It's our anniversary. Why don't we have dinner tonight? Maybe relive some of the good times we had."
"Jeff we didn't have any good times."
"Please Terri, let me buy you dinner."
"No." Terri hung up the phone. Jeff just smiled he did exactly what he wanted, he made sure her day would be ruined. Terri looked at her watch she was now running late, and rushed into work.
As she walked past Joshua's office she stopped to check about the meeting. "Good morning Miss Lowell."
"Joshua. We're on upstairs?"
"15 minutes. Everything rosy today?"
"Why?"
"Oh, no reason. But if you want to talk about anything, anything at all."
"You know."
Joshua walked over to her. "On the date of my first post divorce wedding anniversary, I took a hot air balloon ride across Albuquerque."
"Its just a date on the calendar, Joshua." She knew Joshua was just trying to be helpful, and that he was worried about her. This is one of the times she wished she could tell him the truth. Jeff doesn't mean anything, and don't worry my husband is taking good care of me.
"On my second post-divorce wedding anniversary."
"From your second wife."
"No first. I did something even more escapist. I proposed."
"To whom."
"The second wife."
"On the date of your first wedding anniversary?"
"I was looking for balance."
Terri didn't know what to say to him. She just turned around and walked to her desk. She was still a little upset about Jeff calling her. She wanted to tell him he was a jackass and she was very happily married now, but instead she had to just listen to him. As she reached her desk she saw a present wrapped up and sitting on the desk. She turned to Joshua "Is this from you?"
Joshua shook his head, "Sorry." She sat down and opened it. It was a book. A surprised smile came across her face. "Gone with the Wind in French"
Lex was looking at her, "Looks like a first edition."
"Classy, romantic." Joshua said smiling in the background.
Terri sat there speechless, Joshua and Lex continued to stare at her, she looked at them and started to explain. "I, I, I saw it in a rare bookstore in Nice.. God, I can't believe he bought it."
Joshua smiled, he already knew the answer, and knew Terri well enough to know she wasn't about to answer him. "He who?" Terri just looked at him. Joshua smiled and went back to his desk.
Terri saw him walking down the hall. "Stiles?"
He turned around with a big smile. "Yeah."
"Thank you. How did you know?"
"Know what?"
"You got the date from my personnel file. I never told you."
"What date?"
"Come on, I know you have access."
"Oh, that."
"I mean it is a weird thing to do. To give your wife a gift on her former wedding anniversary from her ex. But it was so sweet. I guess that's why I love you so much."
"Well, I love you too. I know he put you through hell, and I wanted to make sure you know I'm not like him." Terri smiled at him, there was no way she could think Stiles was like Jeff. "I was afraid it would be a rough day for you."
"Well, it shouldn't be and now it won't be." She smiled at him, Stiles wanted so much to kiss her. They were standing in front of the conference room as Jackson walked up.
"Excuse me." Stiles realized how close he came to kissing her and was a little embarrassed but also couldn't wait for Jackson to leave.
Jackson walked into the meeting and Stiles knew they needed to play things cool. Terri looked up at him sweetly. "Hey, Thank you."
"Look, lets not make a big deal out of it, ok. It's just a, just a book."
"No it isn't. I'll thank you appropriately tonight." Stiles smiled thinking about exactly what she meant, Terri knew what he was thinking, she walked in and Stiles followed her. During the meeting Terri looked over at him. Should she tell him that Jeff called her. She couldn't see how that would help any.
Terri and Stiles ended up going to Indonesia, were involved in the CIA's making of a porno movie to discredit a terrorist sympathizer who would have won the election, were arrested when they tried to blackmail him. Almost killed until Jackson convinced former President Grayden that he couldn't tell them that Terri and Stiles were CIA agents.
After everything they had gone through Terri and Stiles couldn't wait to get home. Stiles opened the door and picked her up and carried her in. They couldn't wait to get into their own bed, together. Terri cuddled up to him and they fell asleep. Stiles was plagued by the same dream. Terri tried to get him to talk, but he wouldn't. She was very worried about him. She didn't like that he was shutting her out. Terri didn't realize that very soon she would know exactly what those dreams were about.
